Week-Long Cyberattacks May Have Come From Britain

SEOUL, South Korea — A Vietnamese computer security firm believes Britain was the likely origin of last week's cyber attacks that crippled
major US and South Korean websites, South Korean officials told Agence France-Presse.

"The (British) server appears to have controlled compromised handler servers" which spread viruses, said Park Cheol-Soon, a network protection
team leader of the government-run communications commission.

Wow, just a few days ago, they were SURE it was NK... surely our friends across the pond are not knowingly complicit...

I'm in the US, Texas. As it happens I went to a US fed site Thurs following a post at ATS and it was overloaded. This post reminded me and I was
trying to connect dots.

I'm a lonestar transplant myself. Your difficulties, although unfortunate, are very interesting. The fact that you mentioned a fed site before your
issues would make the case a lot more believable, but it would be pretty difficult to determine any connection, without logs and such.

Originally posted by liveandlearn
Does anyone know if any of these attacks effected home computers. It sounds like they were just aimed at the gov.

More than likely...yes. A botnet used for a ddos would require a significant amount of compromised PC's, the vast number of which would be home
PC's. Given most home users are lazy and careless odds are good that many of these home 'contributors' would have provided the horsepower to carry
this out. The home PC's themselves I doubt were the intended targets but tapping their resources collectively and targeting US sites of interest
would definitely have been the objective.

I've noticed on a major solution provider for intrusion prevent systems that signatures of late are knee deep in bot detection, hardly a surprise but
interesting.

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